These metrics involve analyzing those who interact with your social media content rather than analyzing the social media content itself.

1. Age Distribution. Do your social media pages attract older or younger audiences? Knowing the ages of who is interacting with your social media pages, such as the average and median age of those who “like” your posts, can help with everything from content selection to product pricing strategies.
2. Geographical Distribution. How global is your organization’s reach on social media? Analyzing social media data by geography, such as viewing the number of followers on your Instagram page broken down by country, is one of the best ways to understand your existing and prospective customers. Knowing the geographical distribution of your audience may also assist with knowing when to post; the goal there being to post content to align with the time of day that people in each time zone are likely to be on social media.
3. Gender. What is the distribution of your audience among different genders? How does that differ in terms of who views your posts versus who “likes” your posts?
4. Ethnic Background. Similar to other demographic information, understanding how audiences of different ethnic backgrounds interact with your social media content allows you to infer a lot of insights that can help optimize your organization’s strategy.

These metrics involve analyzing data about the pages and posts themselves that your organization is creating via social media.

1. Click-Through Rate. Out of all visitors to your social media pages, what proportion click on links that appear there? This is what click-through rate (CTR) measures. A higher CTR means that your audience is well-engaged with the content that you post.
2. Clicks. Exactly what it sounds like: how many times has your audience clicked on content that you post on your social media pages? This metric can be measured on an overall basis or for individual posts.
3. Impressions. Impressions count the number of times one of your pages is shown to someone.
4. Pageviews. Pageviews count the number of times an audience member views one of your pages. This metric differs from impressions in that it counts views rather than actions. In other words, if someone views your page three times, that would count as three impressions but only one pageview.
5. Shares/Retweets. Again, this metric can be calculated on an overall or post-by-post basis.
6. Subscriptions. How many audience members have subscribed to your communications via social media, such as subscribing to your YouTube channel or to a monthly mailing list?
7. Comments

These metrics concern trends occurring in the industry in which your organization operates. One key difference between this group of metrics and the others covered in this article is that these metrics analyze data originating from external social media pages rather than your organization’s.

1. Industry Trends. There are many separate metrics within this category. For example, what has been the most talked about new product on social media over the past six months in the industry in which your organization operates? 
2. Comparative Pricing. How are your competitors’ audiences reacting to their prices on social media? What percent of reactions in the comments are positive versus negative? Knowing this information can help your organization optimize pricing strategies to win over potential buyers from competitors, and it is all accessible by analyzing social media data.